Global Life Sciences Summit 2024

DLA Piper hosted its annual Global Life Sciences Summit in London on 6 November 2024.

The Summit brought together pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies from around the world and at all stages of the life cycle to discuss emerging trends and challenges facing the industry.

Topics covered on the day included:

• Highlights from our Life Sciences Index 2024
• Industry evolution
• What is driving the market
• Global political challenges facing the industry
• Reform of the EU pharmaceutical legislation
• Artificial intelligence
• ESG and Sustainability

In addition to plenary sessions, we ran a series of breakouts addressing the legal challenges facing in-house counsel. Participants chose between sessions that covered transactions, regulatory, patent litigation, product liability, antitrust, data, investigations, government affairs and commercial contracts.